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you. so choose your life stream quality and enjoy your favorite. t.v. is not required to watch all it's all you need is your mobile device watch r t any toy. relations between washington and car or important major test of president morsi is in the you want us amid growing tension between the two over a wave of them time american protests. and in europe fury spreads to new states as violence is seen and greets all muslims continue to vent their anger in arab states. also uproar in the u.k. over a billion spent on foreign aid and huge salaries for british consultants and all of the programs struggling households at home brace for further benefit cuts and price
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hikes. and welcome to our team this monday it's three o'clock here in moscow on charon taraji well as anti-american sentiment across the arab world gathers pace tension between washington and the largest regional powers also grow the biggest question mark is over the future of american egyptian relations and president morsi his first visit to the u.s. for the u.n. general assembly might clarify certain issues ahead of his trip morsi accused washington of having a biased policy in the region and bell to demonstrate more independence from the u.s. and his predecessor are too small celera gauges the possibility of that actually happening. mohamed morsi came to power on promises to make could the capital of
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palestine and open up egypt's corridor with gaza his presidency promised his supporters a chance to reclaim egypt some pride especially on the international stage one of the curious things is that the americans have been to egypt since morsi was elected and they congratulated him but morsi didn't rush off to united states he went to china instead and also to iran which was a diplomatic snub to you know it it states but the snub it seems more of a token gesture because when angry egyptians took to the streets to protest against the united states the muslim brotherhood kept in the background and president morsi criticism of the u.s. was muted dr saeed sadik a longtime observer of egyptian foreign policy says morsi cannot replace the united states with another world superpower but godless of how much you might want to change your foreign policy or restructure it it's a big process and you need alternatives and the alternative is not i don't think
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china is for. being a policeman the fact is that for egypt to prosper and solve its economic problems it still needs washington cairo receives close to two billion u.s. dollars a year in economic and military aid and so two and a half months into his presidency the new muslim brotherhood president is having to maintain an increasingly delicate balancing act his hardline supporters on the one hand the west and washington on the other prompting many observers to ask what if anything has changed since mubarak's era in egypt today is not very different than it had been under mubarak egypt u.s. relations during the mubarak era or quite strong the u.s. is an important partner. economic partner for egypt and it would be very difficult for us to any president coming in during konami crisis to rock the boat but the recent violent demonstrations do way. talks of a proposed one billion american dollars in debt relief to egypt and although
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washington stresses this is merely temporary and there's no major shift in u.s. aid to egypt and the relationship between the two countries remains strained this war with erected several days ago to prevent protesters from reaching the american embassy on the other side that there is no sign of anyone wanting to take it down a physical reminder of the growing barrier that now exists between labor and washington but it's a barrier that neither side wants to make permanent because while morsi might be pulls apart politically from his predecessor on the international front he's trading remarkably close policy r.t. . in europe outrage over an american film marking islam is engulfing new countries clashes have no ruptured in the greek capital as muslim protesters try to break through to the u.s. embassy in athens forty people have been detained it follows the unrest in france where muslims took to the streets after a french magazine published caricature of the prophet muhammad police in paris are
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arrested twenty one people for defying a ban on protest rallies and reacting to the publications hundreds of students gathered in tahrir prime to call for the explosion of the french ambassador from iraq france based journalist robert harness says paris has only itself to blame for falling out of favor with followers of islam. the government as you know very difficult position because of their policy in syria and because of their various inconsistency. is large all french leaders like most european leaders are in the in the nato buying they've committed themselves to nato tied up with nato france under sarkozy committing yourself more strongly than any time since general de gaulle to nato. air is the usual sore stick and carrot trum from washington so that there's another aspect of it i'd also they want to appear. we country above their weight to use
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a british expression in international politics because they want to keep their veto in the united nations so there is no difficulty on the other hand there is a growing feeling in leftwing surfboards that the government's policy is nonsense you cannot support it terrorism on monday and condemn it on tuesday and support it again on wednesday they're playing it both ways they don't want to enrage the the people the alleged five million people of muslim backgrounds in france are a lot of people on the other hand they stick to their line that they allow free speech which of course is only allowed in france on certain subjects it's the ongoing syrian conflict has made many nations in the region fear its repercussions but in neighboring lebanon people are already feeling that clashes between those supporting and opposing syria's president assad have become a common sight on lebanese streets and everything points out the country being dragged into the war even further parties loose a coffin of explains. another day another battle in
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syria. it's a war that has taken on increasingly sectarian tones that some fear could in gulf neighboring countries it's the states outside. of the neighbors of syria that could be said to be more vulnerable than syria itself called for gratian and civil war lebanon stands right in the path of the blast waves lebanon fought its own civil war on to tarion lines for fifteen years and now the syrian conflict is literally spilling across its border syrian troops have carried out incursions into lebanese territory while rebels take shelter in lebanese towns it has aggravated i'm healed wounds from the past string fears of a new civil war that's already have had effect here in lebanon it is. the politics of lebanon. it is resulted in conflicts that have taken place in tripoli it is resulted. that have happened in beirut lebanon of
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course vulnerable to this type of sectarian conflict lebanon sunni's mainly support syria's rebels including the powerful militant group hezbollah tend to back president bashar al assad a member of the alawite sect is divided in half between the groups that support the syrian syrian regime and those people actually. helping and corrupt allies and going there for what they scald the free syrian army nowhere is that divide more violently visible than in tripoli on the streets of lebanon's second largest city and sunni gunmen have been battling it out this is been a flashpoint for years but the fear is the violence could spiral out of control and spread across the country when we arrived a shaky cease fire was being monitored by the lebanese army but we spoke to fighters on both sides who showed no willingness to disarm. ok.
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you know this is the leader of a sunni militia here in tripoli as bubble to ban islam i asked him whether peace with his opponents is possible. as long as assad remains in power there won't be peace in syria lebanon or iraq or powerless done through be no peace while he is in force and neighboring general must send an alawite fighter shows me the destroyed remains of his home when asked to explain the recent fighting with his sunni neighbors this was his response not the dollars just we were defending ourselves against machines of terror in their series who were being brought in from the brig . even the push to defend islam is most unifying figure the prophet muhammad wasn't enough to bridge lebanon's sick tarion divide in beirut separate protests against an anti islam video has turned tens of thousands of shias to the streets days later a hardline sunni cleric who gathered his own supporters in the capital they may have been united in their outrage but protesters carried flags that left no doubt
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which side of the syrian divide they're on for now lebanon is holding together but some residents here wonder whether this is just the calm before the storm season is that you guys are going to go. they're going to have their start their careers are there some in the streets here that. look at what they're going to fight it's like that so it's never going to get this shelled out buildings stands in beirut green line which for nearly two decades divided the city journal lebanon's bitter civil war christian communities lived over here to the east muslim communities lived across the street to the west but as the armed conflict in syria continues to escalate just across the border many here in lebanon fear that the fragile peace could yet again be shattered and that sectarian tensions could once again plunge this nation of nearly four million into another civil war for our team and lucy calford of in beirut. and coming up later this hour and george. thousands of people
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keep up their protests against the police abuse of inmates several top georgian officials have already lost their jobs but it's not calling the anger of the people who are demanding all those involved in the scandal be held accountable. and in the business will it have later this hour legendary investor jim rogers is very bullish on the. story and the long war and about ten minutes. while many households in the u.k. struggle to make ends meet the government is tightening its grip squeezing out additional cash to meet its international status britain's now top the list of foreign aid spenders but as artie's polyploid to reports the multimillion pound contracts are being signed on the banks of the poor. i'm standing in front of the london headquarters of adam smith international according to that website they provide consultancy on economic and government reform well the website doesn't say
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is that one of the number of firms to have profited heavily from the british government's foreign aid budget last year alone the u.k.'s department for international development spent over five hundred million pounds on international projects abroad that's allowed the executives in the company behind me to pocket the biggest salaries and million pound bonuses britain's hefty foreign aid budget includes an annual spend of two hundred eighty million pounds that goes to india that's despite the fact that india's economy is so successful that they themselves provide two billion pounds worth of international aid each year at a time when the coalition government is considering freezing benefits for the most vulnerable in the u.k. society some m.p.'s wondering whether all this time has money should be spent they call questionable foreign aid the department for international development has said they're going to stop giving aid to india but that hasn't stopped them building
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a new office and you know this going to be quite shortly spending four hundred thousand pounds of money on furniture now this isn't the kind of spending that's want to see given the pressure on their own budgets for critics of the u.k. substantial foreign aid budget there's more bad news on the way prime minister david cameron is planning on increasing it that's going to mean lucrative contracts for so-called poverty barons that run consultancy from like the one behind me now in recent days the bank of england has one struggling british households to brace themselves for the price hikes in food and fuel with poverty here in the u.k. predicted to increase over the next eight years many struggling households are going to be left wondering whether all that money spent abroad on what many call questionable foreign aid might be better used to home. you're watching our team the rest of the day's international news and much more is heading your way right after
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this short break. i never thought i could earn a living this way. natale issue of oil is the norm or should test small arms so those photos to machine building ploy and not obvious lost count of all the weapons she's fired over the past twelve years. i got so used to it sometimes my friends ask me to join them at the rifle range and i say no wait i'm so tired of shooting. the planet's history goes from making firearms doing world war two to ballistic missiles from nuclear submarines during the cold war the bulk of the soviet industry was moved here in the 1940's to flee the advancing germans so as he became the heart of soviet military production closed off to foreigners for hoffa's century it thrived on the message of the soviet military when the u.s.s.r.
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collapsed but life here was shaken to the core but some adapted to better than others. this is the year old truck factory russia's number one truck maker for girls a look at how well the workplace is organized everything's going to make sure the workers don't waste time waiting there was so production is booming the factory has largely managed to get on to civil rails these giants are sold around the globe hit a base of brand new be no way to be delivered to acquire seventy trucks like this one roll up the bronx conveyor belt every day look at about this things that absolutely huge. well i'm no formula one pilot but hopefully if i can get up that. well i can go far to drive.
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well without was. i want to get one of these to travel to whatever in the morning what's with the cost of about forty thousand dollars i should start saving my. critique free. free. free. free. free. free volunteer video for your media project free media. dot com. china will reportedly use on man drones to monitor a cluster of violence in the east china sea which are at the center of an ownership dispute with japan tension is escalating between the two sides as beijing sent three patrol ships into the asia pacific to watch over the waters around the contested plant dozens of fishing boats from taiwan are also heading towards the islands as it too claims ownership now one lives on the territory it's believed to
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be rich in natural resources the u.s. has played its hand in the standoff as well building up military activity in the region and backing tokyo in the dispute defense analyst. leaves washington's actions could found the flames for conflict. but the secretary of defense that he fears that there. could be a war between. experience that the united states is going to support so that means that if you could come to blows let's hope let's see the chart that would send a force to try to. serve each force a change for. of course charge to follow their first like try to locate. the further side of. the ceilings of communication. were at least to. the u.s. but once the other. plenty more stories waiting for you on our want sign our teen
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dot com you can hand there from the latest. fatal conjecture a double amputee husband sean dead by a policeman after pulling a pen on the officer you can learn more at archie dot com. plus after israel run jump its rhetoric over iran's nuclear program it's now rattling sabers saying it's not only tel aviv which can strike first learn more all online at. the leak of a shocking prison abuse video in georgia has left the government scrambling to save face but the rolling wave of protest is only gaining momentum r.t. had a chance to talk to the man who filmed the videos and he claims the president was entirely aware of what was happening in the facility. the public is in fact still so shocked and angry that their father comparing the footage from georgian prisons
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with back from guantanamo except it contains suspected terrorists while here we're talking about ordinary georgian inmates another factor irritating the public right now is the recent arrest of one of the ordinator it's all be stored in court just movement you've got to take more yeah he was detained on saturday by traffic police officer we were not abiding to the authorities orders he was put in prison for ten days but it is reported that he wasn't even decrying the wheel off before stopped by the police early our team managed to me told the americans started all this relief their videos of was going to be the crowds that were used to be one of the senior staff members of the coup but i need for that in b.b.c. claims that person only shot many of these videos before the georgists interior minister showed the videos to the president it was just for fun for no particular reason it was like we do what we want with people one see take you to presume you are nobody you have to take me to this is why these videos cause such how you treat
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you in georgia all of this is definitely a huge blow to be a mutual feel for nice since to be election code to parliament is going up on the first of october at a boarding to be elitist. both president saakashvili and the ruling party have already lost up to twenty percent of all supporters. parties you could just kind of continues to follow the latest developments in georgia as more rallies are expected on monday to check his twitter feed for all the updates and one of his latest tweets you go to says protesters are telling him they won't back down until their demands are met meaning the arrest of a former police chief and the release of activists from jail. is.
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it's time now to take a look at other news from around the world. religious celebrations turned to tragedy. killed thirty injured in a stampede in the indian town of they all got local officials say hundreds of.
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people flooded into a temple for morning prayers. common in india with another occurring just a day ago near the city of new delhi killing three. people are dead and as many as thirty eight others still missing after an avalanche hit a group of clubbers. it struck on mount. north pole the world highest peak the autumn climbing season comes right after the end of the monsoon rains making weather conditions on predictable because of the avalanche is still being investigated. ellery's has elected a new parliament without a single opposition member in it earlier two of the country's a leading opposition parties decided to boycott the vote by texting widespread election fraud western observers said the poll was an impartial and fail to meet many european political president aleksander no question go along with other fellow
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russian officials is subject to several sets of the new sanctions and as branded as europe's last dictator. the right time for the business news of the tasa natasha what is the latest well there's been a lot of three certainly a lot of talk about making russia more attractive to investors and the guests of top economic event the sochi forum had some suggestions artie's maturity that could talk to some of. this year's sochi investment for was different the last one to be held here near the tory is in the theater and the first one to be led by prime minister medvedev rather than the president's speech and the tone was different not so much cherishing of past economic achievements but rather criticism that russia is not becoming more competitive and experts agree and the g.'s we just have to be chairman of. the energy today is going to channel bright and that's what i'm going
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to teach and i'm bringing my associates between the people who are my books or my tapes you know it was so good for me you hope to make it good for the prime minister is bored by this corruption and inefficient government institutes have led to insufficient competition on the markets placing russia at sixty seven place on the global scale if you have a boost from governmental dominance then you get in the in trouble with the things like corruption inefficiencies. not. good sitting around and stuff like that so so personally i like more a system which is which is more driven. market than the government but apparently this will be a difficult task as forums like so to demonstrate just how closely business in states and russia intertwined together like to call itself one mechanism the realisation something has to be done is a step in the right direction. and let's quickly of wrong through the equity markets europe first european shares are all lower this hour as you can see almost
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three quarters of a percent for the footsie and the down x. and u.s. futures are pointing to a lower opening on wall street a major slide for the russian shares as well not surprising considering the global sentiment here the numbers more than one percent for the r.t.s. on the currency market the euro is weakening to the u.s. dollar and the actual ruble is extending last week's slide to the major currencies a legendary investor jim rogers recently said he's interested in buying into the ruble sergei griot from russia's new canonic school says it could prove profitable . in the economy like russia going to see is a function of david allowed to flow in all price both things are very volatile so it's a cave it profitable as well it does much it would be much worse if central bank defended their old boat or or kept it from appreciation i think it's very good it will be determined by the market russian this is so generally known that it and as
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i said the russian government that it was the potential of russian economy will be a capital out to get built in floor and those who come first will make a lot of money and that i think is understood by jim rogers. russia's attempts to largest lender he as the will go public the bank will reportedly offer up to thirty percent of its shares in moscow in london by mid october raising around half a billion dollars in the process. and that's all the latest from us here at the business desk see you back here thank you very much and just coming up next is cross-channel quiet peter lavelle and his guest trying to shed light on the background and the reasons for the ongoing tension between china and japan.
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the french invasion of russia has started again after two hundred years up at the. jet. has arrived from overseas to lead the army i have to really take my time to prepare myself to get it right i know. the bloody battle near moscow is going to start over. james brown will reveal the victor the soldiers are back to do it all again. but you know version twenty plus r.t. .
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